Interesting Places
Belgium
Brazil
Comunicar e Dizer: Facebook and Twitter
Jônatas Davi Paganini: Try Bliss and "semantografia e a linguagem bliss" at GitHub
Canada
Blissymbolics Communication Institute Canada has the Blissfull Thoughts blog, the Bliss iBand, a musical ensemble of people in the Canadian Bliss community, and the wonderful Archive of the history BCI.
Inclusive Design Research Centre, OCAD University
Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy
Denmark
En bruger fortæller (a user tells)
Bliss-symboler: Et sprog uden ord (Socialstyrelsen, Denmark)
France
Finland
Papunet - Bliss-portti - Bliss-porten
Germany
Ontology4 (by Hermann Bense, Dortmund, et al), and their very interesting integration of Blissymbolics in their ontology systems and visualisation tools
Deddi and MyTobii computer and Deddi & Axel with MyTobii computer
Ireland
Evertype.com - Bliss Unicode proposal
Italy
Mexico
Netherlands
Ghica van Emde Boas' Bliss Board app, developed in MIT App Inventor for Android devices
Norway
At Statped you may find: "Bøker på bliss symbolspråk" - some of the same and more in the lefthand tabs - Fagbøker, Lettlestbøker, Barnebøker and Øvingsbok - lær å lese bliss
There you can also read Bliss symbolspråk.
TurboDevs AS, developer of BlissBrain and initiator of BlissBase and other projects involving Assistive Technology, games and Blissymbolics:
Code on Github, BlissBrain on Facebook
Poland
Prototype (so far) Windows app with Blisymbols on YouTube by Michał Heliński
(turn on subtittles under the Settings wheel to get English comments)
Polish movie "Chce sie zyc", with the English title " Life Feels Good", by dir Maciej Pieprzyca 2013 - about a boy with cerebral palsy who eventually acquires communication with Blissymbols.
Singapore
Students at the Nanyang Polytechnic School in Singapore developed a prototype writing system for Blissymbols called Bl-ink. Short video demos are still available on Youtube at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueOX3ChnWi0 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl5fqk-9Yr4
Spain
Eneso Verbo is a Windows and Android application to create dynamic communication boards. Now gives access also to Blissymbols.
www.eneso.es/verbo/
www.eneso.es/verbo/pictogramas/
South Africa
Presentation about Louisa Albert's work with Bliss
Sweden
Språkbanken - Karp lexicon resource - with Bliss (now with Swedish and English look-up!)
Matts Lundalv's Blissymbol Resources Page - complete and correct BCI Blissymbol lexicon resources to June 2019 - documentation, Bliss graphics file libraries etc.
Three videos from the National High School for students with physical disabilities in Göteborg:
- About their work with Bliss and AAC
- General presentation about Bliss
- Promotion of their request for acceptance of a recognized educational language program for Blissymbolics
Bliss project for adult Blissymbol users at Sunderby
- Blisshuset
- Blisshuset (facebook page)
Bliss user Natalie's "Pinkies blog" and video blog
Newspaper articles 2015 (in Swedish): Louise speaks with symbols and
More Bliss-words needed (from BCI International Panel Meeting 2015)
Concept Coding Framework (CCF) bridging between languages and symbol systems: ConceptCoding.org - with CCF-SymbolServer and CCF SymbolWriter extension for LibreOffice/OpenOffice adding free support for Blissymbols and ARASAAC symbols in LibreOffice/OpenOffice Writer.
Special Access to Windows (SAW6) onscreen keyboard - free software found at SourceForge. Blissymbol diplays for SAW6 in English and Swedish among SAW Resources at OATSoft.
Switzerland
Blissymbols in Edutech-Wiki, by Daniel K. Schneider et al at TECFA, University of Geneva
United Kingdom
BBC 4 radio programme 2017: The Symbols of Bliss
About Manchester (about the above radio programme): Exploring the world of Blissymbolics
Sensory Software - Blissymbolics for The Grid 2
U.S.A.
Radio Lab - on C.K.Bliss and Blissymbolics
Veteran US Bliss and BMW Bliss-Minspeak user Lee Mehrlich gives short YouTube presentation for PRC 50th anniversary. Here is the transcript from Lee’s video:
“My name is Edwin Lee Mehrlich, but please call me Lee. I have had the PRC for 30 years with Bliss Symbolics. I made the first BMW with Shirley McNaughton. I had a book before PRC but my ECO2 gives me more freedom to talk.”
Ken Hackbarth of Volksswitch.org has created a next generation of tactile symbols based on Blissymbolics to teach language to individuals who are blind, deaf-blind, or visually impaired. The symbols may also be effective when used with individuals on the autism spectrum. These Bliss Tactile Symbols are opensource, customizable, extensible, and designed to be 3D-printed.
Article on C.K.Bliss and Blissymbolics from the Letterform Archive in San Francisco.
Eric Lee's Semantography site: www.semantography.soltechdesigns.com, among many other things offers a new and improved scanned version of C.K.Bliss's Semantography (180 MB) book.
George Sutton's Symbols.net - Blissymbolics, and lots of new Bliss material at George's new site: Picture-Parts.com
Douglas Crockford:
Blissymbolics Bibliography
Gregg Vanderheiden:
TRACE
Vietnam
Blissymbolics Vietnam (on Facebook)
International
Blissymbolics Language support group (on Facebook)
Concreta (Platform and journal for contemporary thinking on images): Introduction to BLISS for Two Voices with Chorus
idsgn - a design blog; Bringing Bliss to non-speakers
Reference to the film about C.K. Bliss 1975 - Mr. Symbol Man
References to the book about the film about C.K. Bliss 1976 - Mr. Symbol Man (book)
Reference to a short cartoon about Bliss 1974 - Symbol Boy
The Wall Street Journal: ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Turns 150 - For the anniversary of ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ translations into Pashto, Esperanto, emoji and Blissymbols
ISAAC ( International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication)